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Three people are caught up in the 1998 Omagh bombing and its aftermath. Elizabeth comes close to losing her life, Mari lost her husband and Conor drove the car that delivered the bomb. They tell their interlocking stories of that dreadful day. With this presentation Lit Crawl Kells and Hinterland Festival Kells marks the twentieth anniversaries of both the Good Friday Agreement and the Omagh Bombing.

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There are rounds for those only slightly acquainted with J.K.Rowling’s characters and rounds for the experts – so something for everyone of any age who has ever picked up a Harry Potter book. Bring a clipboard – it’s not a table quiz!

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Join the Irish Writers Centre Roaming Writer in Residence, Jan Carson for a host of tiny train stories garnered from her recent adventures riding the trains of Ireland. Jan will be accompanied by singer-songwriter, Hannah McPhillimy, showcasing songs written during her recent travels in America. Courtesy of Belfast Lit Crawl

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Dr. Glen Gendzel will introduce the great Irish American fin de siècle humourist Finley Peter Dunne, who wrote in the voice of ‘Mr. Dooley’, a fictional Chicago barman from Roscommon. Dooley dispensed opinions on everything from politics and foreign policy to philanthropy and pianos in the parlour. Myles Dungan will bring Mr. Dooley to life with dramatic readings that may or may not do justice to the original.

19:00

Betty Newman Maguire will highlight the importance that the Kells Croizer, the Book of Kells, Muiredach Cross and Newgrange played in the inspiration for the design of the place settings and the runners at the dinner party.

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Set in Kells, Co. Meath during the 1970s, the romantic thriller charts journalist Sarah McCarthy as she uncovers family secrets and links to both sides of the Troubles. The 29-year-old Navan native has received a number of accolades for her writing, When not writing fiction, she writes murder mystery scripts on Etsy. The novel is available on Amazon Kindle : https://amzn.to/2H5jTAL

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Work in Progress Award winning poet (Sound Archive, Cabaret) and obsessive ‘muso’, Nerys Williams reads extracts from her forthcoming memoir of life in Wales in the 1980s and 90s. There will be lots of post-punk, goths, a bit of grunge and some midwifery..

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The history of cycling mirrors the history of feminism in a fascinating way. As the call for women's suffrage grew towards the end of the 1800's, so did women's use of the bicycle, and both were seen as threats to the established social order.The Freedom Machine is an audio-visual stand up show, written and performed by Elaine Gallagher, which mixes past and present, fact and fiction, personal, political and historical, to explore cyclists, feminists, motorists, and every other ist in between.This work premiered at Smock Allies: Scene + Heard 2018.

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'The Periodic Table of Poems' is a delightful collection of 93 short poems about many of the chemical elements that make up our Universe. Peter Davern will be giving a public talk about his book and will also include some simple chemical demonstrations. Peter is a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Limerick.